advise project sponsors to come in before hand, especially if you have a large project. takes several weeks, and sometimes, there are issues. we are dealing with hunters point right now, and we have streets that wrap around each other, and street numbers are repeating themselves, so we have to address that in other ways, and there are ways to handle that before it happens out there in the field, and that is what we're trying to do now, the more proactive on the issue. >> is there a list of the recommended minimum number of entities to be notified, or else, it just becomes this moving target for different sponsors. >> for the property owner, it would be anybody outside of a utility company or post office or any city agency. all of your private people that you deal with, your friends, your relatives, private companies that you receive mail from, you would do a change of

address request. or if you have a new address, it is already established once we send that notice to all the public agencies, so your address is established when you move into your new condo, now, instead of after the fact, so to speak. that is what we are trying to deal with now, trying to be more pro are due, so if you go out and buy a new piece of property, you have an address on that when you buy it. you are buying the right property, and it has the right assigned lot number, and that is something that has not happened in the past. >> in essence, they already know who they are supposed to be contacting? >> yes. we are working with the department of public works. as new apartments are being developed, we are actually looking at the plans before they are submitted to make sure that the address that they wanted to use is the correct address, and

it is not in the middle of a blocked where it should be at the front. we are getting the word out, and i have had a lot of people come in and deal with this, and we are setting up the team to deal with this in the future. this will be addressed in the procedures, and it will be established at our help desk that we will have established on the first floor. commissioner murphy: [inaudible] >> yes, this will be a topic of discussion at the pac. >> i just wanted to reiterate that what is new in this to address the issue that has been brought before us is that tenants who may be affected by this type of address change get notified as the person who is applying for the address. >> actually, we are asking that tenants be notified prior to submitting to develop an affidavit that the property

owner will have to provide. immigrate. thank you. >> any more commissioner comments? be >> ok, i think i'm ready now. well, as you know, i have been here coming for two and a half

years, in spite of my complaint. that was according to the law, and i did not get satisfaction. never met with the director who was supposed to take care of the violation. neither did i get satisfaction from the building inspection commission, who has been delaying, and there is no public hearing, and one of the most important parts is the all my friends here, we should have a public hearing to hear the changes that are being suggested, which sound of churches. before i continue with burial thing is that the problem is that it is important to remember that actually, my landlord and

many landlords like him are attacking with blood, so they are trying to extinguish us from having a place to live with dignity. now, about my case, you all know that -- if you do not know by now, maybe today is a great day. that everybody walks in dbi with this application for a permit, and i thought it was a permit at the beginning. i spent more than one year, and i went again, and i went again, and they said clearly, applications for building permits, additions, addresses, and repairs. also, staff here, many people do not know that we have a warning

right here below that says here this is not a building permit. no work shall be started until a building permit is issued. so how can the landlord tried to get [inaudible] that is a brand new unit. that number was only for the brand new units on the third floor. we went through the planning commission, the board of appeals, and they all cancelled their permit because [inaudible] commissioner murphy: thank you,

mr. morales. >> why don't you all understand that? it is a mystery. >> trichet commissioner murphy: thank you -- commissioner murphy: thank you, sir. >> i like to move to approve the notice put together by the and that is before us regarding address changes. i think we have discussed this a lot. i think the way that we have the procedure and the new rules and the new notification will make sure that tenants are advised within the time limit so that they can properly deal with these issues instead of missing their opportunity. i think it is a really good solution to the problem that we have been made aware of, and i like to move to forward it. >> second.

>> we have a motion and a second. all those in favor? those opposed? and there is that one correction that needs to be made. item seven, discussion and possible action regarding a new administrative bulletin, guidelines for the structural review of continuous tied down systems used to resist overturning of white frame would shear walls. >> i have some concern about the language. i do not know if you would like me to go over that here or wait until the end of the meeting. >> we need to discuss it i think in a public forum.

>> ok. there is reference to shrinkage compensating device, it typically provided by the manufacturers. this is written as if you could design systems force yourself because all the static is really quite simple. the only item that needs to have some sort of documentation of approval or acceptance would be the shrinkage compensation device. i think that should be acknowledged in here. what is the plan for that? second, in the preface, it is a good description, but it does not mention the fact that those are required to resist the tension of the ride that goes up the building. i just think it should be included to clarify. item seven, there is -- in the

standpoint, but a lot of times shear walls are misaligned. as they go up the building, the job. does that mean that any wall within a common line, not just continue is textbook-looking shear walls -- they are not allowed to be next, so perhaps that could just be clarified. >> yes, and i think the best thing to do is refer it back to the subcommittee and have you present your concerns to the subcommittee said they can be discussed at their level. >> i support that. i refer it back to the code advisory committee and have them resubmit to us. >> is that in the form of a motion? all those in favor? all opposed? ok, this item is being referred

back to the code advisory committee. commissioner murphy: public comments on this? seeing none. >> ok, we already heard item eight. we are moving on to item nine, which is update discussion and possible action regarding the community action plan for seismic safety. >> we have printed out the report, and the reporters also online for public view. we will have a copy in the department for public review also. it is here. it is finished. the next step is that as everyone knows, there has been several executive directives to establish a seismic committee, of which i am a member, and dbi

will be participating heavily in this committee to go forward with the mandatory seismic retrofit program. >> does that mean that some of the items that shares have included in our hand outs and recommendations -- would those be part of your role as director or part of your role as this may or a committee? >> it will be part of the citywide directive. it is going to be a citywide effort. to this fact we also need to bring in the funding aspect of it to help do this, so dbi cannot do that by itself, so the mayor set up a committee to involve all city departments that will be affected by this and make it a citywide effort. it will eventually be at our apartment at the end for inspection and implementation,

but the actual aspect or incentives for the program will be developed city-wide. >> thank you again for this massive -- let me see this book here. it is a massive undertaking of crucial importance. i know it is going to be our exercise for the day. >> we have someone here from the mayor's office -- >> can i finish? i was not finished, no. i think that one of the things that we should follow up on is the discussion about a mandatory program. >> that is at the city wide level now. it has been referred to the city administrator by the mayor. >> ok. commissioner murphy: as i understand it, it is our of our hands. >> ok, got it. >> i guess i'm here to speak to

the commission about the executive director that -- executive director of that then mayor newsom issued. this was made possible by the work that everybody had a hand in putting together. that it binder made it possible for the mayor to issue executive director then to administrator lee to begin a new implementation work group. the idea that they did -- that capss did exactly what it was supposed it appeared identified risks in a scientific way, identified a number of strategies to mitigate those risks, protect life and property in the event of an earthquake, so what the then mayor decided was to pass the task of implementing this report on to a group of folks who specializes

in implementation. talking with the community, working with a number of different city departments, including the comptroller's office, dbm and obviously dbi is a big part of that, and public agencies to figure out how to protect the city. that executive director now resides with amy brown, and she and i have had some productive and substantive talks about how to move that forward now that she is our city administrator. we are going to be convening folks, including people who participated in capss, but also, these were new participants in the process because it will require a lot of money down the line, and we are talking in the long term over a number of years. it will require a lot of outreach to differ stakeholder groups around the city to inform them was seismic safety actually

means and how we can actually provide safer buildings. just on a bit of a tangent, one of the things that occupied a lot of my post-5:00 p.m. time last year was talking about proposition a going around the city. what i learned through that process, along with other folks who traveled around the city with me, the community members to not necessarily have as deep and understanding as the commissioners do about what seismic safety, how it actually can be implemented. the question we heard or derivative to the question -- "you have not touched my house or my block, so i do not understand. where is the seismic safety? you guys have not given me any money to fix my house." that is not inappropriate way to think of seismic safety. it is a citywide goal, requires city-wide intervention, and that is what this executive director hopefully will move us toward.

if we retrofit the school, on the corner of your building, that will provide you with more tangible benefits when there is an earthquake. if the school does not collapse, you have a fire on your block, and second, it can provide shelter for people who are displaced, so we need to start thinking about this in a citywide way. hence the executive director to move it to the city administrator who takes a citywide perspective and to encourage collaboration with the comptroller's office and all the other agencies and apartments that will push dissipate in this. the executive director -- director really does decide with ms. brown, and she needs to structure it the way she wants to and lead the charge. as i said, i have talked to her a bit. she is sort of on board with this vision of it, but again, we look back to the groups that did all the work that enabled us to move this forward, so

information and the formative conclusions do come from capss and ne executive director does include the policy decisions that were in the report. with that, i know john is here and has some things to say as well. i will answer some questions if you have any. commissioner hechanova: do you foresee any obstacles as a result of this report to the america's cup effort, to put it in place by 2013? >> that is a great question. i had not thought about that. is there something specific? obviously, that is a lot of cortlandt, and the port has certainly some seismic issues they are dealing with and have been dealing with an need to deal with in the future, but specifically, that is a great question, and i had not thought enough about that angle. commissioner walker: thank you very much for your help. i wonder if we can count on some help for our new lieutenant

governor to help fund the implementation of our recommendation? >> yes, i think he will dedicate unlimited funding to whatever -- [laughter] commissioner walker: on the record. >> the lieutenant governor does have a number of statutory responsibilities, including disaster management. this is something that he cares very deeply about. i cannot promise unlimited funding, though. i'm sorry. commissioner murphy: thank you. >> john paxton, former co-chair of capss. thank you very much for all of your support.

>> i think many of you know that last month, was one of the coat- directors -- project managers of the project. now, i'm just a concerned san francisco citizen. >> we are both here today as concerned citizens. commissioner, with regards to america's cup, that is on for plan. port land is outside of dbi's jurisdiction, and the project only includes privately owned property, so i do not think there is any overlap there directly. is that your understanding? >> that is right. one of our recommendations is that dbi upgrades its code standards and encourages the for to do the same to be consistent. >> i know that ultimately, the

building permits goes through us? >> the building permit for four property does not go through us, but we have been tasked with working with the port to provide additional support in the way of planchette services or inspection services it needed, so we will be there. and the court building code is a separate building code, but they rely very heavily upon the recommendations we make with the commission, said the seismic portion of the code is statewide, and they will be addressing the seismic portion of great at the port on any property that is reconstructed or altered or newly built on the port property. commissioner murphy: thank you. any further questions? >> i'm not done. each one of us, i think, has our own ideas about what form these

seismic safety efforts should take. you step back, and you realize we're all pulling 90% in the same directions. certainly had some mild disagreement with jason and perhaps with each of you in terms of what direction this should all go. it is exciting how much we have gotten done, and we will all make sure that this does not sit on the shelf, that we get action implemented that we do not get stuck in more committees and reports and what have you down the line. the capss initiative has moved on to amy brown. there are -- i will make a mild disagreement with you, director, in terms of i think there are these three or four things that we have asked webic to do -- asked the bic to do that rightly

remain with the building inspection commission. these are as i see it, some black and white building issues that are technical in nature. there were four recommendations we recommended. first was to enact the post- earthquake repair guidelines. one of the main reasons that i want laura up here with me -- i'm the liberal arts major, and i'm not the engineer. laura is the engineer, and she understands this stuff, so when you come up with the technical questions, i certainly want her here. the second request was the bic cards some standards for retrofitting, that that would be -- we all want to encourage people to do voluntary retrofitting. they will then know that if they conform to those standards on

their retrofitting efforts, that they will not be asked down the line to come and redo the work they have done. three is evaluation criteria when buildings are evaluated, and i can go into that a little bit more if you wish, and then segue into the permit tracking system, we would certainly like to have the results of the evaluation and retrofit activity's been publicly available on a permit tracking system. and by the way, if we have -- i do not want to call them inspectors, but he evaluators go out and evaluate buildings for seismic capacity, i think it is a one time in a lifetime or more than 10 lifetimes to actually have a human set of eyes on the inside of the door, and i think we want to give some thought on what non-structural issues we want to be looking at to

populate this new database, which we are all looking forward to having. but there are these four items that i think that we felt were important for the bic/dbi to act on. they kind of go down in terms of the lowest hanging fruit is at the top. the things that might be a little harder or not this time sensitive towards the end of the list, but we certainly encourage the commission to move forward on these four items. >> can i ask a question? i believe that part of what we were doing throughout the project, the first item here is to deal with those post- earthquake standards.

maybe some of these are already in play. >> some of these recommendations are in place or are being worked on. some of them are, some of them are not -- commissioner walker: which are not? just to be -- i would kind of like to -- because i know we are working on some of these that deal with our jurisdiction. >> right, lawrence is working on the -- we want to have standard design criteria for voluntary seismic retrofits, and the engineers are working on that. i do not have an estimated completion date. i could probably get that for you by next meeting. the other -- evaluation upon sale. >> right, we would not be doing that. the property owner would hire an outside evaluating. we will not be evaluating the buildings. evaluations will be coming to us to recommend approval or more

work to be done on the buildings. and maybe that would be us just requiring it? >> my personal opinion is that there needs to be sound evaluation standards and that the appropriate place for the standards to come up would be through the department of building inspection. that is certainly worthy of some discussion, and we can all talk about it, but we want to have as we move forward on the process on how we get to the mandatory retrofits. there is some bumps in the road bond. likely bumps in the road before we get to that point. i know that most of us are certain -- or certainly many of us think back requiring evaluations early on is going to be the recipe until we come up with some funding mechanism to

pay for the work on private properties. >> i know that we talked about it in our caps meeting, requiring a report from property owners. we had a list of likely at risk buildings. we can send a letter out and say this is a mandatory evaluation. four, which is our database system, are we including in our fields information about structural foam rubber bridge a vulnerability and seismic viability, i guess it would be? >> that is part of the requirement, for the system to be able to actually -- design the system so we can add fields as necessary, so whatever information we need to collect on any parcel of property, whether it be seismic, whether it be environmental, whether it be anything for any department because this is a city-wide system. we have to have that ability to

add fields as needed to collect any type of information and report. >> i agree. i think that this is -- these are reasonable requests of us, that we are even now engaged in. maybe what we could do is just offer support to our department working with amy brown and the city administrators group to make sure that we do it right. but some of this we are already doing. >> yes, you are. i would like to certainly -- we want to keep the city, we want to keep dbi, bic moving forward on this effort. there is enough resistance. we do not need to be our own worst enemies. the first item, in terms of enacting the post-earthquake repair standards -- there is a report firmly known as task 3,